Contract

A print version of the following contract is sent to our clients after they retain our firm.

RETAINER AGREEMENT: K-1 VISA (USCIS & EMBASSY)

This retainer agreement will confirm the terms upon which you have retained our firm to represent you in connection with immigration and related matters. The services to be rendered will consist of securing the receipt by your fiancee of a K-1 visa to enter the United States. The specific services to be provided are as follows:

1. USCIS Forms Preparation
Our office will prepare all USCIS forms for you based on the information and documents you and your fiancee provide us. Upon completion, we will send your forms to you for signature by express mail.

2. Collection of Form Data from Fiancee
A member of our office (including overseas staff) will contact your fiancee to obtain all biographical information required by the visa process, unless such information has already been obtained by you.

3. Supporting Document Advice
Our office will provide you and your fiancee with all necessary advice regarding the collection of supporting documents for the USCIS petition and Embassy interview.

4. USCIS Application Preparation
In the interest of expediting USCIS review of your K-1 visa petition, our office will prepare your petition according to the highest professional standards, and every effort will be made to make the application as complete, accurate and easy to review as possible, so that the USCIS official is encouraged to approve the application as soon as possible.

5. Contact with USCIS
Our office will handle all telephone, mail, and fax contact with the USCIS. In extraordinary circumstances, we may ask you to voluntarily contact the USCIS to aid our office's efforts to expedite your case. Your voluntary agreement to undertake such contact will not be deemed as a failure by our firm to adhere to the terms of this agreement.

6. Embassy Forms Preparation
We will fill out all Embassy forms for your fiancee shortly after our submission of the USCIS petition and will mail the forms to your fiancee's home address. We will also at this time send your fiancee's instructions prepared by our office, as well as all the Embassy instructions and other material contained in U.S. State Department Packet #3 (initial Embassy mailing to the fiancee) and U.S. State Department Packet #4 (final Embassy mailing to the fiancee).

7. Contact with U.S. Embassy
All required telephone, mail, and fax contact with the U.S. Embassy will be handled by our office. In extraordinary circumstances, we may ask you to voluntarily contact the Embassy to aid our office's efforts to expedite your case. Your voluntary agreement to undertake such contact will not be deemed as a failure by our firm to adhere to the terms of this agreement.

8. Contact with the Fiancee
We will honor all reasonable client requests to contact your fiancee by telephone to assist her/him in resolving problems or difficulties associated with the legal process as well as maintaining confidence and composure in the process.

9. Paralegal Assistance in Moscow and Warsaw
One of our assistants will meet your fiancee prior to her Embassy interview to prepare her/him for the interview. In the event that our assistant becomes unavailable due to illness or some other exigency beyond the control of our office, a Russian-speaking member of our U.S. office will contact your fiancee by telephone to conduct the Embassy interview preparation.

10. Embassy Interview Preparation for Non-Russian Speaking Clients
For fiancees undertaking interviews in embassies other than Moscow or Warsaw, one of our attorneys will call your fiancee and thoroughly prepare her/him for the interview through telephone consultation.

GENERAL SERVICES / PROVISIONS:

11. Client Updates
We will keep you closely advised of all significant developments in the progress of your case. We will initiate contact to advise you of the following events, among others: (a) Our successful contact with your fiancee to obtain all necessary biographical information (b) Receipt by us of your and/or your fiancee's documents and other supporting items (c) Our mailing to you of your completed USCIS forms (d) Our submission by express mail of your USCIS petition (e) Our mailing to your fiancee of her/his Embassy instructions and completed forms (f) Arrival of USCIS Receipt Notice of your petition with case number (g) I-797 Approval Notice of your petition (h) Request by our office to embassy for the opening of provisional file for your case (i) Request by our office to embassy for interview date for your fiancee (j) Interview date for your fiancee

12. Attorney Accessibility
You can expect to have access to an attorney during normal working hours, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, excluding holidays. Should a specific attorney you desire to speak with be engaged at the time of your telephone call, you can expect a return telephone call within 24 hours (not including weekends and holidays), except in such cases where extraordinary circumstances beyond the control of the attorney make such a call impossible.

13. Expedited Case Processing
Every reasonable effort will be made to expedite your case promptly and efficiently. Please understand, however, that government bureaucracy errors or workload problems beyond our office's control can sometimes slow the processing of a case. We will, however, work proactively with the government agencies involved to minimize the impact on your case of any such government errors or delays.

14. Attorney Ethics
We expect that all information given by you or your fiancee to our firm, either orally or in writing, will be accurate to the best of your knowledge. If we discover that any information you supply us is willfully inaccurate or false, we will immediately withdraw from representing you as required by law.

15. Attorney Fee
You will be charged a flat fee of $1500.00 for the K-1 visa, plus $200 for each child invited as a K-2 beneficiary. This presumes that the facts are as you represented them and that no material facts have been withheld by you or your fiancee.

16. Refunds
If either you or your fiancee withdraws the K-1 petition, we will refund you the unused portion of your attorney fee based on the percentage completion of our work at the time of withdrawal. The percentage of fee deemed paid in full will be calculated according to the following schedule: case initiated - 20%, USCIS forms prepared - 40%, I-129F petition submitted - 60%, Embassy forms prepared - 80%, interview scheduled - 90%, visa received - 100%.

17. Expenses
We will not bill you for our office expenses associated with processing your case (e.g. express mail charges, telephone charges, copying costs, et cetera). You will separately pay all required government fees and medical examination fees.

18. Translations
Should you or your fiancee request that our office perform translations of Russian or Ukrainian language documents, the charge will be $30.00 per document translated. Should your fiancee arrive in the Embassy city without all required translations, as described in our mailing to her, the charge for our assistant to perform a rush (i.e. less than 48 hours) translation will be $75.00.

We appreciate the confidence expressed by you in selecting our firm to act as your counsel in connection with this matter.

AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED BY:

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client name

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John F. Roth